Is Jimmy Kimmel Live New Tonight? 11:35 p.m. ET Air Time and Repeat Nights

Kimmel is the last network hour that still starts its week on a Monday and still calls it a four-night week, which sounds like a contradiction until you look at a month of listings. Since late August the show has skipped Mondays entirely — three straight Tuesday-to-Thursday weeks — and tonight, 21 September, is the first Monday taping since 24 August.

So the honest answer to "is it new tonight" depends on two things: the day of the week, and whether ABC is in one of its short breaks. Both are below, with the week's bookings and the one date everyone keeps asking about.

Which nights is Jimmy Kimmel Live new?

Monday through Thursday, at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT. Friday has not carried a first-run hour since ABC moved to the four-night week, and there has never been a weekend edition.

The listings make the pattern blunt. Of the 115 episodes filed for 2026 so far, exactly one landed on a Friday; the rest split evenly across the four weeknights, with Tuesday and Wednesday carrying thirty apiece.

Why has Kimmel been skipping Mondays?

Short breaks, not a schedule change. The show came back from its summer hiatus on Tuesday, 8 September, ran three nights, then took Monday, 14 September off — the day after the Emmys, when most of late-night New York and Los Angeles is travelling.

That is the shape of a Kimmel year. The 2026 listings carry eleven gaps of five days or longer, including two eighteen-day stretches in July and August, and the show returns from each of them mid-week more often than not.

What time is Jimmy Kimmel Live on where you live?

11:35 p.m. in New York and 11:35 p.m. in Los Angeles, which surprises people who assume one feed. ABC runs a separate tape-delayed West Coast feed so both coasts watch at the same clock time.

A live sports overrun moves all of it. When a game runs long the local station pushes the whole late-night block back, and it rarely warns anyone in advance.

How do you tell a repeat before 11:35?

Three checks, in order of reliability. The show's YouTube channel posts fresh monologue clips on a taping afternoon and nothing at all on a dark day, which is the fastest tell.

After that, a lineup service listing that reads R 9/9/26 beside the guests is a repeat with its original air date attached. Your cable guide is the least reliable of the three — providers tag encores inconsistently, and some never tag them at all.

Is Jimmy Kimmel Live ending?

Nothing is confirmed, and the two sides of this are worth keeping straight. Kimmel signed a one-year extension that carries the show through the end of the 2026-27 season, which The Hollywood Reporter laid out when the deal was made.

Page Six then reported in September that the extension would be the last and that the final episode would air in May 2027. An ABC spokesperson called that report inaccurate and purely speculative. Until the network says otherwise, treat May 2027 as the end of a contract rather than the end of the show.

What is settled is the shape of the hour around it. CBS closed the Late Show in May, leaving ABC with one late-night desk and NBC with two — the full grid is in our 2026 late-night schedule, and who sits where is in who hosts what. Kimmel had Stephen Colbert on his own couch on 15 September, a week we covered in the Colbert update.

Where does Jimmy Kimmel Live stream?

Hulu, the next day, with no cable login needed for the Hulu route. Individual segments go up free on the show's YouTube channel overnight, usually within hours of the taping.

An antenna gets the live ABC feed for nothing, which is still the cheapest way to watch it as it airs. Our cord-cutting guide works through what each of the six weeknight shows costs.

Can you be in the audience?

Yes, and it is free. The show tapes at the El Capitan Entertainment Centre on Hollywood Boulevard, usually at 5 p.m. Pacific on taping days, which is why clips can surface online before the hour airs in the East.

Seats go through 1iota, audience members must be 18 or older, and tickets are issued past capacity — arriving when check-in opens is the whole trick, the same as it is for the New York tapings.

FAQ

Is Jimmy Kimmel new tonight? Tonight, 21 September, yes — Woody Harrelson and Sam Richardson, with Greta Van Fleet performing.

Does Jimmy Kimmel air on Friday? No. There has been one Friday episode in all of 2026.

What channel and what time? ABC, 11:35 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 10:35 p.m. Central and Mountain.

Is Jimmy Kimmel on hiatus? Not this week. He returned from the summer break on 8 September and is taping four nights.

Who is on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week? Harrelson and Richardson Monday, Jamie Foxx and Ke Huy Quan Tuesday, Brandi Carlile and John Wilson Wednesday, Ben Affleck and Mo Amer Thursday.

Where can I watch the full episode? Hulu from the following day; clips are free on YouTube overnight.

Checking the other desks instead? Is The Tonight Show new tonight and is Seth Meyers new tonight answer the same question for NBC, why late night reruns on Fridays explains the shared Friday gap, and daytime has its own schedule page and View hub. Every announced booking for this week sits in the Sept. 21-25 lineup; older nights are in the late-night archive, and the background pages are filed under guides, including this year's Outstanding Variety Series result.

Sources

Listings data via TVmaze — the 2026 weekday counts and the gap list above are our own tally of its episode file. Guests cross-checked against Interbridge and LateNighter. The contract extension through 2026-27 was reported by The Hollywood Reporter; the May 2027 end-date report and ABC's denial are covered by The Hill and NewscastStudio. Taping venue, time and audience rules from 1iota. Bookings move without notice — the update time above is when this page was last checked against all of them.

By the Talk Show On Air desk · Updated Sept. 21, 10:10 a.m. ET